Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford

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Sir Roger de Clare
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Born	1116 Tonbridge, Kent, England
Died	1173 Oxfordshire, England
Office	3rd Earl of Hertford 1153-1173
Preceded by	Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare
Succeeded by	Richard de Clare

Roger de Clare was a son of Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare and Alice de Gernon. He succeeded to the earldom when his brother Gilbert died without issue. In 1164 he assisted with the Constitutions of Clarendon. From his munificence to the Church and his numerous acts of piety, Roger was called the "Good Earl of Hertford". He married (c. 1150) Maud de St. Hilary (1132-24 December 1193), daughter of James de St. Hilary and Aveline. Together they had seven children.

Name	Birth	Death	Notes
By Maud de St. Hilary
Mabel de Clare	1160	1204	m. (c. 1175), Nigel de Mowbray.
Richard de Clare	c. 1153, Tonbridge Castle, Kent, England	November 28, 1217	6th Earl of Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford
James de Clare	1164, Clare, Suffolk, England.
Eveline (Aveline) de Clare	1164	4 June 1225	m. [1] (c. 1204), Geoffrey IV Fitz Piers (Fitz Peter), 1st Earl of Essex. m. [2] Sir William Munchensy, (b. c. 1184), son of Warin de Munchensy and Agnes Fitz John.
Roger II de Clare	1168	1241, Middleton, Norfolk, England.
John de Clare	1170, Clare, Suffolk, England.	Unknown
Henry de Clare	1172, Clare, Suffolk, England.	Unknown

There is a first school, Roger de Clare School, in the village of Puckeridge, Hertfordshire, named after Roger de Clare.

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• Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis; Lines 63-27, 149-26, 246B-26